Catholic Missal of the day: Monday, January 28 2019

Monday of the Third week in Ordinary Time

Monday of the Third week in Ordinary Time

1. Reading

Letter to the Hebrews

9,15.24-28.

]Christ is mediator of a new covenant: since a death has taken place for deliverance from transgressions under the first covenant, those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance.
]For Christ did not enter into a sanctuary made by hands, a copy of the true one, but heaven itself, that he might now appear before God on our behalf.
]Not that he might offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters each year into the sanctuary with blood that is not his own;
]if that were so, he would have had to suffer repeatedly from the foundation of the world. But now once for all he has appeared at the end of the ages to take away sin by his sacrifice.
]Just as it is appointed that human beings die once, and after this the judgment,
]so also Christ, offered once to take away the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to take away sin but to bring salvation to those who eagerly await him.

Psalm

Psalms

98(97),1.2-3ab.3cd-4.5-6.

]Sing to the LORD a new song,
for he has done wondrous deeds;
His right hand has won victory for him,
his holy arm.
]The LORD has made his salvation known:
in the sight of the nations he has revealed his justice.
]He has remembered his kindness and his faithfulness
]toward the house of Israel.
]All the ends of the earth have seen
]the salvation by our God.
]Sing joyfully to the LORD, all you lands;
break into song; sing praise.
]Sing praise to the LORD with the harp,
with the harp and melodious song.
]With trumpets and the sound of the horn
sing joyfully before the King, the LORD.

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark

3,22-30.

]The scribes who had come from Jerusalem said of Jesus, "He is possessed by Beelzebul," and "By the prince of demons he drives out demons."
]Summoning them, he began to speak to them in parables, "How can Satan drive out Satan?
]If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
]And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand.
]And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand; that is the end of him.
]But no one can enter a strong man's house to plunder his property unless he first ties up the strong man. Then he can plunder his house.
]Amen, I say to you, all sins and all blasphemies that people utter will be forgiven them.
]But whoever blasphemes against the holy Spirit will never have forgiveness, but is guilty of an everlasting sin."
]For they had said, "He has an unclean spirit."

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St. Thomas Aquinas(Priest and Doctor of the Church († 1274) - Memorial)

SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS Priest and Doctor of the Church (c. 1225-1274) St. Thomas was born to noble parents in Aquino, Italy. At 19 years old, he received the Dominican habit in Naples where he was studying. St. Thomas' brothers disapproved, seized him while he was on his way to Paris and held him fortwo years' captivity at their castle of Rocca-Secca. Despite the threats and stratagems of his brothers, and the tears and caresses of his mother and sisters, St. Thomas remained steadfast. When St. Thomas was confined at Rocca-Secca, his brothers sent a woman to seduce him. He a burning brand from the hearth and drove the woman from his chambers. He marked a cross on the wall; and while rapt in ecstasy, was girded with a cord by an angel in token of his perpetual chastity. The pain caused was so sharp that St. Thomas uttered a piercing cry, which brought his guards into the room. He never told this grace to any one save Father Raynald, his confessor. This point was the origin of the Angelic Warfare Confraternity for purity and chastity. After escaping, St. Thomas went to Cologne, studied under Blessed Albert the Great and taught philosophy and theology in Paris for many years. The Church venerates St. Thomas' numerous writings as a treasure-house of sacred doctrine. His synthesis of Greek philosophy and Western theology defined truth, nature and substance. Truth is the intellect's conformity to reality; objectively identified and not just subjectively felt. In naming St. Thomas the Angelic Doctor, the Church affirms that his science is more divine than human. Prayer, he said, had taught him more than study. St. Thomas' singular devotion to the Blessed Sacrament shines forth in the Office and hymns for Corpus Christi, which he composed. To the words miraculously uttered by a crucifix in Naples, "Well hast thou written concerning Me, Thomas. What shall I give thee as a reward?" He replied, "Naught save Thyself, O Lord." In fact, God granted him a vision of heaven so vivid that he was rendered speechless and could not write afterward. His life then spoke louder than his words. St. Thomas passed away at Fossa-Nuova in 1274. He was on his way to the General Council of Lyons where Pope Gregory X had summoned him. He is the patron saint of universities and students.

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